No Goats Were Punched!

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Livejournal Release 93 is live (News || LJ Releases) and this is your faithful reporter, Kermit T. Frog, providing your usual summary of the New, the Old, and the WTF.

Whoops

Aside from the perennial slow notifications following a release, it looks like the only glitchiness this time is a couple of temporary display problems for people with custom-coded nav-strips and userhead images. (Not the paid userheads, but users whose journal layout provides an alternate image to replace the standard LJ userhead for everyone.) They're fixing both of those issues.


Changes that don't really affect FH

• RE-CAPTCHA has been turned off for logged-in users with "social capital" above 15. (You can only see your Social Capital score if you're opted into Cyrillic Services, but it's calculated for all journals and is determined by carefully studying the entrails of a recently disemvoweled goat. Or rather, gt. Or rather, it's mostly based on how many mutual LJ friends your journal has, but mine is more fun.) This means pretty much zilch to us because CAPTCHA is only ever shown to logged-in users if there are more than 5000 comments on a post or if the person who posted it specifically turns on CAPTCHA for logged-in commenters. None of which applies to FH; in the history of history, we have not had a post reach 5000 comments.




• Using the REPOST button to re-post someone else's entry now takes your readers to the original entry if they click comment. Since anyone who reposts an FH entry to their FH friendslist is going to get me personally driving to their house and smooshing a banana cream pie in their face because WHY, this is also not an issue for us.




• There's a new Community E-Mail feature that allows community owners and moderators to send a mass e-mail to all community members (with a max of one e-mail sent per day). We're not going to be using this at FH. We've got a spreadsheet of everyone's preferred e-mail addresses in the unlikely case that we ever do need to send you all an e-mail at the same time; using the comms for it would be silly due to how many members of any given FH comm are actually the same person with different journals. (Plus the likeliest reason we'd ever need to send something like that would be if LJ itself were down for an extended period.)

NOW IS THE TIME ON SPROCKETS WHEN WE deny that there are people in this game too young to know WTF Sprockets is DANCE!

Custom/classic comments pages will no longer bounce you out of the thread and back to the main post once you've commented.

NUMFARR, DO THE DANCE OF YESSSSSSSSSS.

Subject lines also no longer disappear (to be replaced by "no subject") in collapsed threads. (Though due to our OCD-thread style, that last one was seldom an issue for us anyway.)


Still Unfixed

Pages with a single thread longer than 100 comments long still break. Comment timestamps are still shown in UTC.

Still, the Dance of Joy above gives me renewed hope that these will be addressed too.

And that's all I got!

...Well, that and Party In The USA stuck in my head.